Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-20

Our compendium of the tenth census,
though made up Of bard statistics. is more
overwhelming than Paradise Lost or
Dante's Inferno" The question nov
is, What are you going to co with these
100000 illilerates? If you do not ans
wer it Alright, the question after awhile
will be what 20,000,000 illiterates will do
with you. A representative of North
Carolina says that the number of people
in that state who do not know the alpha
bet is larger than the number of votes
ever polled for governor or President.
The people who cannot read or write
at this ratio viii soon hold the balance Of
power in America What an opportunity
for demagogism What hot-bed for mis-
rule What a foundatian oil outlawry
What a prophecy ~ national demolition!
Do you say the states ought to look after
their own illiterates? | reply. many OF
the states are taxed now beyond enduT
s3ca. Alabama aud Souih Carolina and
Narih Carolina ami all the Southern States
have pushed taxation to the last inch.
Ia these efforts they have ehliterated
,nd give black aud white equal adyaI.ta-
.es (rhe above statement is not true.
,hpols for negroes in all the Southern
states arr c.niine.i 70 the cities and lar
ger toa MS Ed Reporter
While Massassnsetis devotes 81 - e J.
.;ion for every si00 Of property, South
CreIi,la PAYS 81 % free schools % every
s25 Of pr =. tbsfleston pays OF q
ratio one-tusd mase ban Boston for e,-
ieationtl pur. ises.
BY tie oyest,r,w Of star rs, millions
Il colo.ed people who knew not their A..
js"s efe gwen he right of suffrage.
me naiiln sels the blacks free without
giving them qualification of citizenship
aud many of the States have a load of ig-
iorance they can not lift, and are crying
out to the National Government to come
TO the rescue.--Talmage.
The above was handed us with re-
quest to publish. There is half column
spilogue left out-what We already have
in type is sufficient to tire and disgust
the well-nformed reader. For example:
Massachusetts pays 81 for every $500 Of
property, South Carolina devotes 81 for
$3.50 of property" The assessed valua-
ton of Massachusetts is about ten to one
in South Carolina, hence, Massachusetts
pays 81 to South Cardinals ST.
The statistics presented needs consid-
cradle reconstruction. The fact is that
the Blair educational bill is gigantic
scheme of Southern politicians to rob the
government. Take any of the Southern
State and the school tax is as large as in
Iowa, and yet, with the possible excep-
ton of Tennessee, there are not dozen
public schools or school houses outside of
the principal towns and cities in any of
them, and in these the blacks have very
indifferent privileges. Where has all
this money gone to? echo answers where.
We know those fellows south, have
lived among them, and know that it is
no part of the policy Of their leaders to
educate the massee, either black or white
--if it had. there would have been as
many schools and school houses In South
Carolina as in Iowa. When the present
Brigadiers are gone, and new industrial
conditions obtain in the South, govern
ment aid for educational purposes can be
fairly and equitably utilizej-and not
hIlthen.